'Occupy Barbie Dreamhouse'- Feminists Protest In Barbie's Pink Palace In Berlin

Europe's first life-sized Barbie Dreamhouse opened its pink doors in Berlin on Thursday to protesters who said the exhibition was nothing more than a sexist cliché.

The 26,900-square-foot replica of the famous blonde's fictional Malibu home is located near Alexanderplatz, Berlin's main shopping district. For 22 Euros ($28), visitors can peruse Barbie's wardrobe, play her pink piano and bake a virtual cupcake in her kitchen. It has a fountain in the form of a giant hot pink high heel in the front and, of course, includes a Barbie boutique filled with merchandise related to the Mattel-made doll.

Multiple factions gathered to protest the exhibition. A topless woman from the Femen protest group, who had "life in plastic is not fantastic" written across her bare chest, burned a Barbie doll tied to a cross. A pink-clad man wearing a blond wig had a sign that said "Do you like me now?" draped across his neck. Others held signs with phrases like "Dear Barbie - don't just bake cupcakes, eat them too!" and "I will free you from the horror house."

"Our protest is not directed towards little girls and their dreams," Michael Koschitzki, a member of the Occupy Barbie Dreamhouse protest group, told NBC News. "But, for us, this so-called Dreamhouse symbolizes the beauty craze and the discrimination of women in modern-day life. It presents a cliché of the female role in society."

Stevie Meriel Schmiedel, a founding member of the "Pink Stinks" protest group, echoed that Barbie's world revolves around one's appearance.

"There's too much emphasis on becoming more beautiful and on being pretty and that puts an awful lot of pressure on girls as well as wasting capacities which they could use to simply be happy or for school," she told Reuters.

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"Thick Madam": Actress Mo'Nique Puts Off 80 Pounds

The 45-year-old "Precious" actress has gotten serious about her health, even documenting her workout regimen in a series of Twitter snapshots and motivational messages for her thousands of followers.

"I tweet every morning," she said in an interview with radio station Hot 97. "Because I want women to see - especially us big women - that you don't have to let them cut you and suck it out. You don't have to let them staple you up. You don't have to let them give you a pill. You don't have to let them put a band around your organs."

"If you put the work in, baby, I promise you, it comes off. When I got on a scale two weeks ago, was 218," she said, explaining that she started at around 300 lbs. "My goal is between 190 and 200."

"I am the best Mo'Nique I've ever been in my life right now," she added. "And I still have a ways to go. But I feel amazing."

Congrats girl...

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Tony Goldwyn's Wife Has A Problem With His Steamy Sex Scenes With Kerry Washington

Kerry Washington and Goldwyn

Can't understand such scenes, especially when you are married. Some say casually that it's acting, but the bodies are real...I feel you girl.


Goldwyn, who plays President Fitzgerald Grant, stopped by Bravo's "Watch What Happens Live" Wednesday and told host Andy Cohen his real-life love Jane Musky doesn't watch the show, mainly because of his steamy on- air sex scenes.


Goldwyn's character and Washington's character have a torrid affair on screen week after week and when Cohen asked what Husky thought of her husband's connection with the sexy 36-year-old actress, he laughed and said "it's a problem."

"The honest answer is, my wife doesn't watch it," he continued. "She watched the pilot and thought it was great, but yeah...I don't encourage it."

"My two girls think it's hilarious. Disgusting and hilarious. So they send me all kinds of rude texts," he said, referring to a time when his18-year-old sent him a compromising video clip from the show and said "Excuse me?!"

Since his character, President Grant, happens to be a philandering leader of the free world he knows the racy love scenes are just a part of the job, however he did admit they can get a bit uncomfortable at times.

"The most embarrassing one for me was when I had to direct my own sex scene," he said, explaining that he had to talk Washington through the positions he wanted them to film.

When asked if he ever got a little too excited, he joked: Well, if you think about doing a sex scene with 30 overweight men staring at you, it's hot."

Hmm...real problem.

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Spotted: Kim Kardashian and Mom Kris Jenner

Whoa.. looks like Kim is having a tough time with this pregnancy. She still looks good though, but men, those shoes are tight. Take it easy girl...

Well, Kim Kardashian was spotted as she ran errands and grabbed lunch with her mom Kris Jenner at Stanley’s in Sherman Oaks, California, yesterday.

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Dirty Laundry: Kelly Rowland Reveals Abusive Relationship and Being Jealous Of Beyonce

Kelly and Beyonce

In the song titled “Dirty Laundry”, Rowland seems to fuel the rumors that Beyonce is her half sister, and that Beyonce’s father Mathew Knowles is her biological dad. Kelly also suggests that she was a victim of domestic abuse — at the hands of her ex fiancé, former NFL’er Roy Williams.

The couple broke off their engagement in 2006, after the dopamine faded and Williams came to his senses and decided they were “moving too fast.”

In a 2011 interview with Cosmopolitan UK, Williams said he made the decision to call off the engagement after he attempted to fill out a pre-marriage questionnaire and discovered he really didn’t know much of anything about Kelly.

Also in an interview for Cosmopolitan UK, Kelly said she was “embarrassed” by the cancelled wedding. She indicated that — like most needy women — she had put intense pressure on Williams to pop the question.

William and Kelly

She described an “ancient aunt” glancing at her finger every Thanksgiving and asking, “No ring just yet, huh?”

Even though Williams and Rowland remain friends, it’s obvious that Kelly still harbors some resentment towards him — as evidenced by the words in her song, which may all be a figment of her overactive imagination.

For his part, Williams denies ever beating Rowland. He also hinted that Rowland might be a woman scorned.

Kelly also revealed she was jealous of Beyonce after Destiny's Child broke up.


Lyrics of new track:

"When my sister was on stage/ killin’ it like a motherf**ker I was enraged / feelin’ it like a motherf**ker / bird in a cage you would never know what I was dealin’ with went our separate ways but I was happy she was killin’ it bittersweet / she was up I was down no lie I feel good for her but what do I do now / forget the records off the record I was goin’ through some bullsh**t post-survivor / she don’t fight / who wanna hear my bullsh*t / meanwhile this nigga putting his hands on me / swear ya’ll don’t know the half of this industry..."

Hmm...

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David Beckham Announces His Retirement From Football After 20yrs

Football superstar David Beckham has announced his retirement after 20 years in professional football.

According to BBC, the former England captain will effectively be retiring at the end of the season.

The 38-year-old midfielder will ending a colorful professional career that saw him play for Manchester United, Preston North End, Real Madrid, Milan, Los Angeles Galaxy, and the England national team.

He recently won the French Ligue 1 championship with Paris Saint-Germain, becoming the first English player to win League titles in four countries.

"I'm thankful to PSG for giving me the opportunity to continue but I feel now is the right time to finish my career, playing at the highest level," he said.

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Anti-Corruption Network Protest At The US Embassy Asking For Visa Ban On Jonathan Ministers Diezani, Adoke, And Orubebe

Anti-Corruption Network Protest At The US Embassy Asking For Visa Ban On Jonathan Ministers Diezani, Adoke, And Orubebe

The Anti-Corruption Network (ACN) today escalated the war over the non-war against corruption in Nigeria by sending a petition to United States President Barak Obama, citing the dangers of failing to check “corruption with impunity” in the country, and linking it with growing insecurity.

The group led by a former house of representatives member Dino Melaye led protesters to the US Embassy in Abuja to drop a letter demanding that President Obama revoke the visas of key officials of President Goodluck Jonathan's regime and their families.

“We are deeply concerned that if this gravity of corrupt practices goes on unchecked, unpunished and unabated, it will definitely worsen the unpalatable security situation and challenges we are already facing which its root course could also be traceable to destructive impact of corruption,” the group said in the letter, dated May 16 and routed through the US Ambassador in Nigeria.

Good one!




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LinkedIn Bans Escorts and Prostitues From Using Site "To Promote Prostitution"

Not only is "prostitution" a tagged skill you can select on LinkedIn*, there are actually escorts who advertise their services on the professional networking site. Now LinkedIn is making sure everyone knows that the practice is not OK.

LinkedIn just changed its privacy policy and user agreement and now explicitly bans escorts from using the site to get clients. The new user agreement states that you must not: "Create profiles or provide content that promotes escort services or prostitution" even if prostitution is legal where you live.

LinkedIn has always prohibited "unlawful" profiles and that this change in its user agreement just makes prostitution more explicitly prohibited, since prostitution is legal in some parts of the world.

If you thought that this change in policy was perhaps just some sort of formality, think again. There really are prostitutes using LinkedIn to make connections. A quick search reveals there are a whole lot of "escorts" and professionals who offer "nude massage." A few that we found are shown below:

Not only can you list "prostitution" as a skill, you can list a whole lot of other unsavory skills like "rape," "shoplifting," "gangs," "manslaughter," and "drug trafficking." People can also endorse you for those skills. It should be noted that many of the people who list "prostitution" in their skills are people working to combat prostitution and human trafficking.

(Huffinton Post)

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